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“THERE IS NO ENDGAME”: WHITE HOUSE AIDES FEAR TRUMP HAS TURNED THE BORDER WALL INTO HIS ALAMO
“The president put himself in a box” as Trump tries to fight his way out, his new chief of staff already eyes the exits, and Giuliani worries about Mueller’s possibly “horrific” report.
ighteen days into the standoff over his $5.7 billion wall-fence-barrier, Donald Trump is rolling out his heaviest weapons: a prime-time Oval Office address tonight and a visit to the Mexican border later this week. It’s the president’s personal Alamo. Inside the West Wing, Trump has told aides he’s prepared to stake his presidency on making a last stand. “He has convinced himself he can’t win re-election in 2020 unless he gets a lot of the wall built. It’s fundamental to his id,” a former West Wing official said. “The problem is, the Democrats know that.”
Trump’s aides fear he has given himself no way out. “The president put himself in a box,” the former official in touch with the White House told me. “The problem is there’s no endgame. Right now the White House is at a seven on the panic scale. If this thing goes on past the State of the Union they’re going to be at an 11.” Another prominent Republican close to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell described Trump’s handling of the shutdown as “total ****ing chaos.”.....
Tic toc. His base couldn't see through this flim flam man with a paint by number kit!:roll:
Nobody knows less about "the deal" than baby phony sucess Donald (Bozo Lannister) Trump. Pathetic! Everyone in New York that knew him knew he was a phony and a con artist and none of you still will look at the MOUNTAIN of evidence of the truth. Not very hopeful about a country that blind willfully.:roll: